Award Winning Customer Service with WST

Best Customer Service at British Youth Travel Awards 

WST are the proud holders of Best Customer Service Award 2015 at the British Youth Travel Awards in December. Co-ordinated by the British Educational Travel Association (BETA), this is our industry's opportunity to gain recognition for its successes in youth, student and educational travel within the UK. In 2016 we followed this up with a Silver finalist award for Best Customer Service. 

Here’s what our Customer Relations Director, Sian Belfield, has to say about the award; “We are thrilled to have won the Best Customer Service award! It is fantastic for our team at WST to be recognised for their dedication to delivering the best possible customer experiences.”

Core values within the team

With a strong set of values, running right from the core of our business, we believe that our experience, passion and knowledge is what made us stand out from the crowd. After more than 30 years' experience in the business, we’ve come to know the industry inside out. Our staff's passion for travel and enhancing students' education by allowing them to learn through experience is second to none.

We never get bored of looking for those added extras to make your trip even better and this is highlighted by our willingness to delight our customers whenever possible through our service. This is also one of the reasons we are currently the only school tour operator to hold the government standard Customer Service Excellence Award. An award designed to ensure we operate with high levels of customer service at all times.

"The mission, vision and values of the company clearly focus on customer service and all staff share the desire to fully understand what the customer needs and then to deliver it." 
Extract from a recent Customer Service Excellence assessment of WST 

Safe and reliable travel

At WST safe travel is also a priority, along with getting groups where they want to go reliably and in comfort. Whether planning a school day trip or a longer experience we have many years’ experience of providing schools with tailored off-site educational trips.

We understand how important it is to make your tour a success, which is why we’re here to deal with all the organisation from start to finish and allow you to concentrate on your students. You can be sure that you’ll get expert support and advice from the very beginning. Learn more about how we support our customers.  

Honest from the very beginning with no secrets and no hidden extras, we offer clear and frequent communication in order to deliver the best possible customer service. We pride ourselves on our staff's level of professionalism which allows us to consistently provide an exceptional service, aiming to create long lasting relationships with our customers, putting them at the heart of everything we do. We offer advice here on how you can ensure that you are working with a reliable school tour operator.

Louise, it's been a pleasure working with you. Your flexibility and support to make this happen has been superb and really appreciated. We got a call the other day from a parent saying last year's trip to Berlin was the best time of her son's life. Like all jobs, I'm sure there are days where you don't see the long term impact of what you do. But, rest assured, the tours you provide and organise really do transform lives and help kids make life long memories.
Cardinal Hulme Catholic School 

I am so impressed with WST! Our school trip to the Bay of Naples had flights booked with Monarch. I was contacted yesterday morning by Kerrie with new flight options. We picked the flights to suit us and WST booked them immediately at no cost to our students!  All within 24 hours of the Monarch news – amazing!
Bishop Heber High School